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Federer cruises into third round ... a probe into more than 100,000 disappearances during Spain's civil war and the nearly four-decade Franco dictatorship that followed it.
Judge Baltasar Garzon cited conservative opposition to the probe, which he launched in October, and said regional courts would have to take up responsibility for exhuming mass graves. One grave is thought to contain the remains of the poet Federico Garcia Lorca. The investigation had been sought by victims' families and Spain's political left. Conservatives said it violated an amnesty law passed in 1977, two years after the death of General Francisco Franco. Garzon became widely known for trying to extradite former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, on the principle that crimes against humanity can be punished by courts anywhere.
(Deutsche Welle)
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